I couldn’t agree more. Honestly, I’ve accepted that I have a low tolerance for people. I choose not to have friends and a social life because I know I’m not pleasant to be around because I don’t want to be around you.
The sad truth is though, without a guild you will be pugging, and in a guild you will hate the experience but will have more readily available access to group content. the latter of which the end game has a lot of.
For me, I choose not to interact beyond the basics. No need to form bonds with people I’ll never meet in real life. Plus, most guilds already have a central clique that they stick to and it’s hard to get into after you join. One guild kept me as a member rank even though I raided with them as a top 3 DPS for half the expansion lol.
That’s WoW for you as an anti-social person though.
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Yeah I’m not really one for guilds anymore, My best mates are ones I met in one of my guilds years ago so we always play together and I just do my own thing in between, we’ve always had stressful experiences with guilds and way too much drama, never been in a guild that didn’t have some clique or drama driving people. Not interested anymore but that doesn’t stop me from trying to socialize with people, not that many want to.
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15 or so years for me and 99% of the time I haven’t been in a guild either, just don’t care for them.
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I have 3 guilds on 2 different realms.
I am the only one in any of them. They are all private.
I do not need the perks, I got those years ago and nothing new has been added.
I just have them so I do not have to deal with anyone else.
It’s that simple
I have an amazing PVP/pve mostly pvp guild, we do things together all the time most of them are on my btag now. Sometimes we just do what ever, best guild I ever been got 50+ members on at once almost everyday all day.
No I feel the same, I don’t want to interact with anyone anymore. Let’s preface this by saying I’ve been playing since 2007. With that being said I did all the “you’re my best friend, I love playing with you, join a guild? Sure!” Fast forward to each guild I’ve cut ties with because they’ve either ****ed me over, they aren’t what I thought, or the GM passed away and it destroyed the guild. I’ve gone through a lot as a player socially, so now as the games progressing. I can’t care anymore lol. Which makes it so I can’t care about guilds anymore or anyone in it. I would rather do solo stuff.
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I love getting into the ones screaming racial slurs and pretty much sexually harassing anyone that sounds like a chick in the coms. Like two obviously White American men arguing back n forth calling eachother the Hard ER and the lbgtq slur.
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You sound like that guy in one of my FFXIV guilds that unironically spent 20 minutes calling us immature children for having the audacity to swear in guild chat.
And just like then, the only child here is you.
You know, I absolutely agree. this is a social game but I typically don’t like being in larger groups for this reason. Some may call it anti-social, and it probably is to some degree, but it’s really based on my dislike of groupthink. The more people you add into the equation, the less intelligent the outcome is. It’s a bit grating to be surrounded by people trying to impress each other. I’ve done much of the same in the past but i’ve changed quite a bit.
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Ive never seen this in a guild discord. Maybe you need to join better guilds
Maybe they’re just getting old and out of touch lol
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Minus the holier than thou attitude, no it’s not weird and everyone has their reasons.
I don’t like jumping in comms for anxiety reasons and would rather just play without.
Can you blame the OP? She’s a priest! I have no excuse though.
I generally don’t do much “guild stuff” personally, just got tired of feeling like I had a 2nd job by attending raids/events, so I just never do it. Not really into discord either so you aren’t alone on this. I think some people are just over the social aspect, or want to do things on their own time.
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It’s just not worth the trial and error of finding a good social setting.
Plus for a lot maybe that just doesn’t exist. Guilds are a melting pot, and most people playing this game are americans. So the majority of every guild on local servers is american social culture. Not my cup of tea. I wish my grandparents stayed in europe a lot of the time.
I have a hard time processing what people are saying in busy Discord calls, so I often don’t engage unless it’s a smaller group. I’m pretty picky about it, though, cause they’re almost overwhelmingly dudes and I often don’t really share in their sense of humor, or socialization.
That, and somehow there’s always American politics. It gets tiring.
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all of life is an MMO…and I cant stand other human beings most times, or being around them, and Im not going to pretend I do.
lol. Ya think?
the chat box alone is enough evidence that it aint a good idea to get too involved with the adults playing this game.
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Not been interested in guilds since my irl friends stopped playing a long time ago(TBC,Wolk days). Had a small 30-person guild on Smolderthorn realm back then. Fun times, but yep became a solo player when they stopped playing. Did make my own little alt guild back in Cata. Just for guild perks. Ventrillo was the deal back then, before Discord was around I guess.
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Do the necro dance!
dons a beetlejuice costume, jigs
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